Singer-songwriter Steve Jones talks about how he came up with The Poseidon Project's haunting theme song, Come Alive.

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In 1931, Britain's most advanced submarine collided with a cargo ship off the coast of China and sank. Three hours later, six sailors surfaced, barely conscious. They were the first men ever to escape from a sunken submarine using a proto-scuba device. Their story hit headlines and went on to inspire a feature film. The miraculous escape changed marine safety forever. But their names, and their submarine, gradually sank into obscurity.

Beijing-based scuba instructor Steven Schwankert was looking for nearby wrecks to dive when he found HMS Poseidon on a list of unexplored sites. His six-year search for the submarine started as a private obsession, but went on to challenge official accounts of the escape, and bring together the lost pieces of a story that touches on the history of Britain and China in the 1930s, the 1970s and the present day.

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Another clip from The Poseidon Project. Doreen Ridsdale and Dave Clarke watch archive footage from a medal ceremony in 1931 and try to spot their relatives.

The latest clip from The Poseidon Project. Steven Schwankert is one of the first foreigners to explore Lion City, a thousand year old city that now rests at the bottom of Qiandao Lake in Zhejiang Province.
(Thanks to Will Moss for underwater footage.)